1.1 hr
Overview
This historic park encompasses the site of Fort Hoskins, one of four garrisons intended to police the eastern edge of the vast Siletz Indian Reservation, established in 1855. The reservation extended from Cape Lookout down to Winchester Bay (Reedsport). Members from all the Oregon tribes west of the Cascades were shipped or marched there, but survival was extremely difficult. With no direct road access from the Willamette Valley, women were marched over the Coast Range to pick up 100 lb. bags of flour to carry back. Four guard stations, Hopkins, Fort Yamhill (now an Oregon state park), the Siletz Blockhouse, and Fort Umpqua, were established to police Indian traffic and track down pass violators. The forts were abandoned after the Civil War and the Siletz Reservation was taken apart piece by piece to open up more coastal land to settlers. Two loops, one through a high meadow and a second loop with interpretive signs about the history of the area, take you through this park.
Trail Stats
2.9 km
131 m
241 m
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